The Second Symposium on Ending Too Big to Fail, May 16

John H. CochraneSenior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Luigi ZingalesRobert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Bovenzi joined Oliver Wyman’s Financial Services Practice in 2009 and is a partner in the public policy area. His work includes addressing corporate governance issues, failure-resolution planning, regulatory compliance and bank funding issues. Bovenzi is co-author of a report titled “Too Big to Fail: The Path to a Solution.”

Cochrane is a distinguished senior fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and at the Becker-Friedman Institute. He authored a paper titled “Lessons from the Financial Crisis.” Other publications include the bookAsset Pricing, op-eds for the Wall Street Journal and a blog called “The Grumpy Economist.”

Zingales' research interests span from corporate governance to financial development and from political economy to the economic effects of culture. He co-developed the Financial Trust Index, which is designed to monitor the level of trust that Americans have toward their financial system. In addition to holding his position at Chicago Booth, Zingales is currently a faculty research fellow for the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow for the Center for Economic Policy Research and a fellow of the European Governance Institute.

The Minneapolis Fed’s #EndingTBTF initiative will explore various proposals from expert researchers and incorporate input from a wide range of thought leaders, culminating in an actionable plan to end TBTF, which will be released by the end of the year.

Keynote lunch: Why I changed my mind on Glass Steagall
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and Charles M. Harper Faculty Fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessReserve Dining Room, Second Floor

Ben S. BernankeDistinguished Fellow in Residence, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution. Bernanke served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from February 2006 to January 2014. He also chaired the Federal Open Market Committee, the System’s principal monetary policymaking body.

J. Christopher FlowersManaging Director and CEO of J.C. Flowers & Co.

Richard J. HerringJacob Safra Professor of International Banking and Professor of Finance, Wharton School, University of PennsylvaniaPrepared presentation [pdf]

David A. SkeelS. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School